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Rumsfeld, another high-concept guy, didn't like being told that he was sending too few troops to do the job in Iraq, so he forced out Army Cnief of Staff Gen. Eric Shinseki, who had made the mistake of suggesting that a little attention to such details mignt not be amiss. Then, when the obsessive-compulsive types involved in the U.S. State Department's massive Future of Iraq project tried to interest the Pentagon in their postwar planning recommendations, Vice President Dick Cheney and the Pentagon war planners made it clear they didn't want to hear about it. The result? About 2,500 pages of painstakingly detailed recommendations on subjects ranging from rebuilding Iraq's infrastructure to democratic reform went straight into the circular file. For the next four years, even as every foreseeable disaster occurred, the administration maintained its high-concept approach to the war. The deaths of at least 3,265 U.S. troops and untold thousands of Iraqi civilians were written off as regrettable but insignificant in relation to the administration's grand strategy goal of " a free and democratic Iraq, which will tight terror (and) be a beacon of freedom." And a somnolent Congress kept nodding along. So we ought to give thanks that Congress finally has stopped dozing and decided to do something to bring this disastrous war to a close. In late March, both houses of Congress passed bills to fully fund military operations in Iraa, with timetables for the eventual withdrawal of U.S. combat troops. The president was quick to denounce the bills as unconstitutional efforts by Congress to "micromanage our military commanders" and "handcuff our generals in the field." But this characterization of the congressional bills suggests t h a t - i n keeping with administration tradition - the president hasn't actually read them. In fact, the bills hardly tie anyone's hands. The House version, for instance, requires the president to ensure that military units be "mission ready" before being deployed, but it allows these requirements to be waived by the president " f o r national security reasons." In the Senate version, the March 3 1 , 2008, troop withdrawal date is only a "goal." And botn bills permit troops to remain in Iraq indefinitely to protect U.S. personnel, run counterterrorism operations and train Iraqi forces. That's "management," sure, but no scrupulous reader could call it micromanagement. In any case, the president's claim that Congress is constitutionally barred from "micromanaging" the war is an object lesson in why he could use a little micromanagement himself. Contrary to the administration's claim, the Constitution (which makes a good read for detail-oriented citizens) in no way prohibits congressional restrictions on the use of the military. On the contrary. Having had unpleasant experiences with monarchical government, the framers were determined to prevent precisely the sort of situation we now have, in which an unaccountable executive endangers the nation through a foolish and self-destructive war. Thus, while the president's war-related powers are dealt with in a single clause ("the President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy"), the Constitution outlines expansive congressional wartime powers, a view that has oeen upheld by the Supreme Court. Congress is expressly empowered to declare war (and, implicitly, to declare an end to a particular war). Congress also has the power to "raise and support Armies" (with the proviso that " n o Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years," which was intended to ensure precisely the accountability the administration seeks to evade). Congress also is given the power "To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces." 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